Detective Conan: Developing a younger version of Ran Eri, and the stunning Yukiko.

Shiraishihara and Sera Masumi took the elevator straight to the rooftop, and several witnesses quickly followed.

During the journey, Shiraishihara paid special attention to the elevator, noting that it was very clean and contained nothing superfluous or unnecessary.

Upon reaching the top floor, Shiraishihara was the first to step out of the elevator, only to discover that it was a type of elevator with doors on both sides.

The woman who claimed to have seen people on the rooftop looked terrified and hesitated to move forward.

"What are you doing, Mrs. Huachuan?" the plump woman urged.

Mrs. Huachuan's face turned deathly pale: "I...can I just stay here? I feel so terrified..."

“That won’t do, you’ll be the one seeing people!” the man said.

Left with no other choice, Mrs. Huachuan had to go to the rooftop with the others.

However, the rooftop was completely empty, with no one in sight.

There was only a coat draped over the edge of the roof, and a pair of shoes placed next to it.

This scene was truly chilling to watch.

"This is... suicide?"

"Where is the figure that Mrs. Huachuan saw?"

"Perhaps what she saw was the dress swaying in the wind?" Mrs. Huachuan herself wasn't quite sure. After all, the rooftop was so high, it was indeed difficult for her to be certain what she was seeing.

Mrs. Huachuan's face turned deathly pale. "It's all...it's all my fault. I forced him into this situation, so..."

Shiraishi Hara glanced around briefly, then shook his head and said, "Don't be so nervous, this shouldn't be suicide, but rather..."

“It was murder!” Sera Masumi interjected.

The two looked at each other.

Moreover, it's highly likely that they're connected to these people in front of them.

"Homicide? Did you see someone push him down?" the fat woman demanded.

"not at all,"

Shiraishi said calmly:

"As for why it was not suicide but homicide, the reason lies in the clothes and shoes placed in front of us."

"What?" The three looked blank, clearly not understanding.

Shiraishi waved his hand and patiently explained:

"You've fallen into a preconceived notion... I've never seen anyone commit suicide without shoes at a suicide scene." He smiled wryly as he said this.

"But you can't be blamed for this. It's all because of the misleading influence of TV dramas. The impact is too widespread. Just because the shoes were left on the roof, they conclude it was suicide. This kind of plot is too common in detective dramas, just like how people who hang themselves will always have blood coming from the corner of their mouths. It's all fiction."

The three people were stunned.

Beside her, Sera Masumi continued:

"In addition, I just overheard your conversation. You mentioned that the victim was extremely drunk at the time and asked you to give him some time to sober up."

Think about it, in a state where he could barely walk, is it possible that he would take off his clothes and neatly arrange his shoes here? Of course, it's not impossible that some unrelated person, for various reasons, arranged the shoes neatly, but look at the victim downstairs…”

Sera Masumi spread her hands and said, "It's easy to conclude that the murderer deliberately placed the shoes to make it look like the victim's suicide...right, Detective Shiraishi?"

Shiraishi nodded silently.

"Then, where is the murderer?" Mrs. Huachuan asked.

"They'll catch them soon,"

Sera Masumi said, "Before taking the elevator, Detective Shiraishi had security guards watch over the stairs and the elevator, so no one could take the opportunity to escape."

"Who...who are you people?" The three people looked at the two young children and didn't know how to react for a moment.

Shiraishi said, "I am a detective!"

Sera Masumi also said, "I am a detective as well."

Sera Masumi's identity as a detective is self-proclaimed, while Shiraishihara's identity as a detective has been certified by the Metropolitan Police Department.

When Shiraishihara and Sera Masumi came downstairs, the news they heard when they met Inspector Megure and the others who rushed over was quite surprising to them.

"Huh? Nobody's coming downstairs?"

"yes,"

Inspector Megure nodded and said, "In fact, apart from the deceased, there were no other residents in this building."

"why?"

Shiraishi was puzzled. How could such a large building be uninhabited?

"It's said to be under renovation."

Inspector Megure casually explained, "The late Mr. Kamizumi Teigo was the son of the owner of the Beika Grand Hotel. I heard that he was able to use one of the rooms as an exception to avoid paparazzi."

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154 Sonoko: This will make you pregnant.

Chapter 154

Sera asked curiously, "Is he a celebrity?"

Inspector Megure gave a mocking laugh and said:

"I guess so? He was arrested once as the mastermind behind an illegal fundraising case, but was released due to insufficient evidence. Now he's being chased by weekly magazines for coverage!"

Officer Takagi added:

"Actually, it seems that he has already been found by the paparazzi, and it's caused quite a stir. Moreover, this guy, Kamizumi Teiji, is extremely arrogant and domineering, and the Beika Grand Hotel is almost driven to its breaking point by him. There are rumors that the reason the annex is being renovated is to take the opportunity to send him abroad."

The three witnesses nearby also said that they were the victims. They came after hearing the rumor, and they only wanted to hear an apology from Kamizumi Teiji before he fled abroad!

Inspector Megure turned and began questioning the witnesses.

As Mrs. Kagawa said, they were all victims of Teiji Kamizumi's illegal fundraising, and they came here to ask for an apology.

Upon arriving, Mrs. Kagawa first went to the room of Teiji Kamijū, who was completely drunk and crying, saying he wanted to confess and apologize, and begged for some time to sober up. Then she left the room and met up with the other two.

The three of them planned to record Teiji Kamizumi's confession, so they went to buy a tape recorder, but...

Just as they were reversing, Kamizumi Teiji suddenly fell in front of their car!

At this point, Ran and Sonoko can testify that they kept a close eye on the car and the body at the crime scene to ensure that no one had approached them, which rules out the possibility that the three people tampered with the body.

In other words... if the car and the body were indeed tampered with, the traces would still be there!

Officer Takagi immediately dispatched people to investigate.

Upon hearing this, Shiraishihara asked, "You really didn't find anyone in the villa? The security cameras didn't capture anything either?"

Officer Takagi looked helpless. "The surveillance cameras have all been spray-painted by Sadaji Kamizumi, so we can't see anything!"

Shiraishihara's lips twitched slightly; just from this description, one could imagine the chaos that Kazumi Teiji had caused.

However, precisely because of this, the annex became a blind spot for surveillance, giving criminals an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Just then, Shiraishihara noticed that Ran's expression was a little strange while she was talking to Sonoko.

"Xiaolan, what's wrong?"

"Uh..." Xiaolan looked over, her expression showing a hint of fear.

Shiraishi Hara immediately saw the problem and couldn't help but sigh, "Sonoko, don't scare Ran!"

Sonoko pouted and said, "I wasn't trying to scare her. I was just telling her the rumors about the villa that I had just heard from the security guard."

"Rumors about the villa? What rumors?" Even Inspector Megure looked over curiously.

Sonoko said with a grin, "I heard the annex is haunted!"

"What?" Inspector Megure frowned. "There's such a rumor?"

Shiraishi Hara keenly noticed the strange expressions on the faces of the three people beside him and coldly asked, "Do you know anything too?"

The three men turned pale and exclaimed in terror, "A ghost! Someone saw an old man in a wheelchair wandering around the villa in the middle of the night!"

"Huh?" Xiaolan was startled.

Inspector Megure looked helpless and said, "I say, since there's no one here, how do you know it's a ghost?"

Mrs. Huachuan began to speak:

“That’s my father… My mother was caught up in an illegal fundraising scam, suffered severe physical damage, and was hospitalized.”

The father, suffering from cancer and with little time left, made a special trip to the villa, booked a room, and went there every day to beg him, "I don't expect you to repay the money, I only ask that you apologize to my wife."

But the mother still died in the hospital, and the father hanged himself that same night.

The rumor arose because the father was using a wheelchair rented from a hotel…

These words sent chills down everyone's spines. Ran, who was already afraid of ghosts, clung tightly to Shiraishihara and refused to let go.

Shiraishi Hara narrowed his eyes. He was right; Mrs. Kagawa's gaze towards Sumida Jōji was filled with intense hatred, but also a hint of barely concealed pleasure. Hmm, just as he suspected?

Just then, Officer Chiba reported to Shiraishihara that he had found a strange wheelchair on the second floor of the hotel, and when he found it, the wheelchair was still spinning erratically!

Officer Takagi turned to Mrs. Kagawa and asked, "Uh... which floor did your father live on back then?"

"Second floor..."

Ran became increasingly frightened. Shiraishi shook his head helplessly, smiled, put his arm around Ran, and left with Inspector Megure and the others.

Sonoko, standing nearby, looked speechless: "Does she really have to ignore me like this?"

When Shiraishihara and Inspector Megure's group quickly arrived at the second floor of the annex, Officer Chiba had already been waiting for them for a long time.

As soon as they entered, they saw that the walls on the second floor were in a mess and had definitely reached the point where they had to be renovated.

Upon closer inspection, Officer Chiba showed them the strange wheelchair. He said it was strange not only because it was moving around erratically, but also because there was fishing line tangled in the wheels, several cut rubber bands, and impact marks on the pedals.

What's most puzzling is that the wheelchair seems to have been made by Teiji Kamizumi himself for amusement, since his legs weren't injured.

Inspector Megure looked around for a while but couldn't find anything particularly strange, so he looked at Shiraishihara with pleading eyes.

"Brother Baishi, what do you think?"

“This shouldn’t be the crime scene,” Shiraishihara scratched his head, frowning slightly. He looked around and shook his head gently. “Besides this place, is there anything else strange about this villa?”

Inspector Megure said, "Let me ask first."

The feedback was that the villa itself was so strange that it was impossible to find anything even stranger.

Shiraishi said helplessly, "Then let's just go around to each floor. It won't take much time anyway."

The next few floors were empty, and nothing unusual was found, until we reached the sixth floor.

This is where Kami-zumi Sadatsugu lives.

The room was a complete mess; the windows were broken, and various paint buckets were scattered around. The paint on the walls was still fresh, clearly indicating that this man hadn't been idle while living here.

Sera Masumi, who was standing next to Shiraishihara, reminded him, "I heard that this window was broken by Kamizumi Teiji himself."

Shiraishi replied irrelevantly, "Be careful, this is the sixth floor! And there aren't any windows on the side!"

Sera Masumi waved her hand dismissively.

Shiraishi glanced around casually and suddenly noticed a lot of paint on the wall below the window, and it was all completely dry. The paint bucket next to it looked like it had been hit by something…

"...So that's how it is, it uses the principle of leverage!" Shiraishi finally understood the criminal's method.

"Detective Shiraishi, you found out the truth so quickly?" Sera Masumi asked, her face full of surprise.

"Yes. It's just a simple little trick."

"That's it!"

Shiraishihara's detective skills filled Sera Masumi with admiration.

Sera Masumi transferred to Teitan High School to become Shiraishihara's classmate and to become his student.

After the incident was properly resolved, Sonoko warmly invited the other three to enjoy a luxurious buffet.

For Sera Masumi, making friends in her class before even officially enrolling in school was undoubtedly a good start.

however……